"Marie and Rosetta" Revives the Spirit
Marie and Rosetta, which has been extended at the Atlantic Theater's Linda Gross Theater through Oct. 16, aims to be a crowd-pleaser"and it certainly is. Just about everyone left the theater with a big grin on their face the night I saw the show. Its title characters are the midcentury gospel singer Marie Knight and her mentor Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a crossover star who was also such a big inspiration for Little Rich…